MALABO, August 17, 2016—What do a Minister of Education, who is trying to reduce the school dropout rates and improve education quality, a Minister of Health, who is trying to address gaps in maternal...

ProblemEquatorial Guinea faces twin challenges: to make growth more sustainable, by developing commercially viable new activities beyond hydrocarbons and public investment; and to make it more inclusi...

Rapid urbanization and climate change are reshaping and exacerbating disaster risk. Together, they have added urgency to the task of building resilience in communities and countries around the world. ...

December 9, 2011 - More than a dozen firms vied for contracts on a World Bank-financed transportation project. But that bidding competition largely turned out to be a sham. A Bank investigation reveal...

Washington, Nov. 23, 2011 - How much will temperatures rise in 30, 40, or 50 years? How could changing weather affect rain-fed crops in the Horn of Africa, or winter flooding and summer droughts in Uz...

October 20, 2011 – How can researchers and farmers get accurate weather data in the high Andes, to gauge the effects of climate change? What is the best way for people in rapidly growing Kenyan cities...

As climate change continues to threaten global efforts to reduce poverty, carbon markets have emerged as an important channel for climate mitigation. But a full range of financial instruments and init...

April 12, 2011 – With a record 210 million people out-of-work worldwide and employers reporting too few workers to hire with the right skills, the World Bank Group today appealed to governments, donor...

April 6, 2011 – The problem of fragile states and conflict-affected countries is a key theme of the World Bank-IMF Spring Meetings on April 15-17, as the World Bank Group looks for ways to improve ass...

In November 2007, powerful Cyclone Sidr claimed the lives of thousands of people in Bangladesh and wiped out a lot of the country's rice crop. A year later, Bangladesh became the first country to put ...

N’DJAMENA, July 16, 2010—Heads of state of the Economic and Monetary Community of Central Africa (CEMAC) met for an extraordinary summit in Brazzaville, Congo Republic, on June 7, 2010, to further cem...

BANGUI, January 21, 2010—The highly anticipated 10th summit of heads of State of the Central African Economic and Monetary Community (CEMAC), which took place January 15-17 in Bangui, Central African ...

March 24, 2009—Unemployment in Calfa, Moldova, is high. The few jobs available pay little, and government pensions are as low as $10 dollars a month. The money that flows back from those who left, mos...